SSC Gifted & Talented

Welcome to the Year 3/4 literacy stars from Sponne Cluster Primary Schools! I wonder if they know what makes a good writer????

I was chatting yesterday with Year 1 & 2 pupils about how we should all see ourselves as both teachers and learners. Often pupils are brilliant teachers – that is why listening to each other’s ideas is so important. Here is a good case in point – a Year 3/4 pupil explaining how he worked [...]

The Year Three and Four G&T Maths students from the Sponne Cluster Primary Schools were presented with their medals and prizes today. A great bunch, they were full of energy and enthusiasm throughout the course and were hungry to learn new concepts. They also worked hard at using and applying their existing mathematical knowledge at [...]

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We explored perimeter and circumference after identifying some areas to measure on Google Earth. The path measurement feature of Google Earth proved an interesting way to check our findings.
The circumference of a circle is simple to find using pi as long as you know the diameter. However, when we measured outside the centre [...]

Year Three and Four students will be exploring the maths of car production. The session is actually aimed at secondary students so they will really have to have their wits about them. An overview of the day is here.

Is this maths, ICT or literacy? – (Year 3/4 pupil)
The truth is that it was combination of all three. The Year 3/4 mathematicians used a mixture of maths, creative problem-solving across the curriculum and computer programming to explore the principles of games design.
The project, below solved the problem of how to [...]

The stars from Years Three & Four are joining us today to explore maths in the  world of games design.

The Year Three and Four children worked very well yesterday in their teams on some very tricky tasks.
In the first main session they looked at statistics to objectively decide who was the best Superbikes rider. It was brilliant to see how teams chose different variables to compile their ‘top ten’ lists and then present them [...]